The management system according to the present invention, which manages a plurality of computers, manages instances that are implemented using allocated from the plurality of computers, and selects, from among a plurality of different instance implementation methods, an instance implementation method that matches instance configuration information, which is information including settings for configuring an instance and which includes particular settings, each indicating whether the instance needs to monopolize a physical resource, said selection being based the instance configuration information. The plurality of computers provide physical resources to the instance on the basis of the selected instance implementation method.
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1. A computer system comprising: a plurality of computers; and a management system configured to manage the plurality of computers, wherein the management system manages instances implemented by the plurality of computers allocating physical resources, the instances are physical, comprises: instance configuration information, being information which includes a setting for configuring an instance, the information includes a setting for necessity of monopolization for each of a plural kinds of physical resources of the instance: resource information which includes allocation information for each of the plural kinds of physical resources that the computer system provides; topology information which includes information of a connect device that can provide a physical resource to the instance; search the physical resource in which the allocation information is not allocated among the resource information as to the physical resource in which the setting indicating that monopolization is required for the instance configuration information is included; search a connected device that can be allocated to the physical resource in which the setting indicating that monopolization is required to the instance configuration information from the topology information among connect devices that can be connected to the searched physical resource; select an instance implementation method corresponding to the instance configuration information based on the searched physical resource and the connected device; and the plurality of computers provide the physical resource to the instance based on the selected instance implementation method.
2. The computer system according to claim 1 , wherein among physical resources in which the setting indicating that monopolization is required is not set in the instance configuration information, the management system allocates the physical resource, which is allocated to any one of the instances, preferentially to the instance.
3. The computer system according to claim 1 , wherein the management system is a computer for which setting was made so that all or some of the physical resources that one computer provides are allocated in a monopolizable manner to one instance, and allocates all physical resources provided by the computer to one instance in a monopolizable manner when a number of physical resources which are not allocated to any of the instances of the computer is smaller than a predetermined threshold and the computer does not provide a physical resource to two or more instances.
4. The computer system according to claim 1 , wherein when a physical resource of a second computer, different from a first computer that implements the instance, is provided to the instance, the management system determines the second computer based on a network topological distance from the first computer.
5. The computer system according to claim 1 , wherein the management system has template information including a default setting for the settings included in the instance configuration information, and the default setting is determined based on the physical resources that can be provided by the plurality of computers.
6. The computer system according to claim 5 , wherein the management system creates the template information including a new default setting based on a use frequency of the template information and a setting changed from the default setting of the template information.
7. A management system managing a plurality of computers, wherein the management system is a computer which is configured to manage instances implemented by the plurality of computers allocating physical resources, the instances are physical, comprises: instance configuration information, being information which includes a setting for configuring an instance, the information includes setting for necessity of monopolization for each of a plural kinds of physical resources of the instance; resource information which includes allocation information for each of the plural kinds of physical resources that the computer system provides; topology information which includes information of a connect device that can provide a physical resource to the instance; search physical resource in which the allocation information is not allocated among the resource information as to the physical resource in which setting indicating that monopolization is required for the instance configuration information is included; search a connected device that can be allocated to the physical resource in which setting indicating that monopolization is required to the instance configuration information from the topology information among connect devices that can be connected to the searched physical resource; selects an instance implementation method corresponding to the instance configuration based on the searched physical resource and the connect device, and the plurality of computers are caused to provide the physical resource to the instance based on the selected instance implementation method.
8. A resource management method for managing physical resources of a plurality of computers, the method comprising, by a management system that manages the plurality of computers: managing instances implemented by the plurality of computers allocating physical resources, the instances are physical; comprises: instance configuration information, being information which includes setting for configuring an instance, the information includes setting for necessity of monopolization for each of a plural kinds of physical resources of the instance; resource information which includes allocation information for each of the plural kinds of physical resources that the computer system provides; topology information which includes information of a connect device that can provide the physical resource to the instance; search the physical resource in which the allocation information is not allocated among the resource information as to the physical resource in which the setting indicating that monopolization is required for the instance configuration information is included; search a connected device that can be allocated to the physical resource in which the setting indicating that monopolization is required to the instance configuration information from the topology information among connect devices that can be connected to the searched physical resource; selecting an instance implementation method corresponding to the instance configuration information among based on the searched physical resource and the connected device; and allowing the plurality of computers to provide the physical resource to the instance based on the selected instance implementation method.
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